Quilt Featured at McCall's Quilting Blog FREE PATTERN

McCall's Quilting blog is featuring one of my favorite quilts that I have made, and I don't even have a picture of it! It's called Urban Neighborhood. It is a modern quilt made using a charm pack and three different shades of gray. I used Hope Valley, my favorite Denyse Schmidt line, for the color.

You can find a picture on their blog:
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/blogs/blog/2013/10/11/friday-freebie-urban-neighborhood-bed-quilt-pattern/

From their post, there is a link to the pattern FREE! The pattern features the quilt in a colorway perfect for fall!

Itchy Fingers

For better or worse, I ended up at Rachel Griffith's blog, p.s. i quilt, and read about Hope Valley, a fabric line by Denyse Schmidt for Free Spirit. 

I have seen this fabric line a few times before, but this time when I saw it I got itchy fingers.  You see, this time I saw the fabric, I had a quilt that is in the works that needed just the right fabric.  Also, this time when I saw the fabric I overlooked the orange and bright pink.   

This time when I saw the fabric, I got itchy fingers.  Do you know that feeling?  I'm sure I'm not alone.  It's that feeling that the stars have aligned, that the perfect fabric has been paired up with the perfect pattern and you just can't wait to get started.  You get that, "I need that fabric NOW!" feeling that doesn't pass until you have the fabric in your fingers (or at least on its way to your fingers). 

Thank goodness there are quilt shops that are open at midnight.  I ended up at Pink Chalk Fabrics where I could buy the fat quarter bundle without the orange and pink.  The other good news -- I am in Utah, and they are in Washington so I should have Hope Valley in my hands tomorrow! 

It all my fingers fault.  When they get itchy, I can't wait to get to my sewing machine.  Thanks a lot Rachel -- for giving me the itchy fingers!